SvcUtil.exe creating its own class name for service contract implementation class - WCF

Question

Hello

I've written a WCF service and hosted in IIS 6.0. When i try to create the proxy using the following command

svcutil.exe /language:cs /out:MyProxy.cs /config:app.config /a http://serviceurl

it is creating its own class name in MyProxy.cs. Why is that?

I was trying to step in to the service for debugging and i was not able to get the breakpoint hit during debugging. Could this be because i renamed the class name which is created by the Proxy?

In the service, the class name that implements the service contract is something like MyService. But in the proxy file i'm getting as MyClient.

Why is that?

Thank you

NLV

Answer 1

The MyClient class generated by svcutil and implementing the service contract should be used to invoke the service. It's just a client proxy. If you want to debug the service you should run the service in Debug mode and place a breakpoint there.